Far East

Although it may look like a scene out of Kismet, the extravaganza above is actually a first look at what the American man at play will be wearing this summer. On a wave of color (firecracker red and temple gold), the...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED staffers have done some odd things in their time—Tex Maule was once a trapeze artist, Ray Cave was a carhop at a drive-in in Washington, D,C., Andrew Crichton was a baker in Greenland—but as far as...

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JON ROBERT PEARCEJon Robert Pearce is an 18-year-old schoolboy from Hamilton, Ontario who may be the next Olympic sculling champion. If he is, it will be perfectly natural: his great-grandfather was Australian...